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Go West, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

You can really never have too much of watching a great set of musicians perform on stage, a furtive reminisce of singing along to a set of records as teenager and knowing that surrounding you are 2,000 people in the same building doing exactly the same thing and the realisation as you try to take in all their faces that each one of them is almost deliriously happy.

As part of the very cool package which included The Christians and and Hue and Cry, Go West’s Richard Drummie and Peter Cox thrilled an audience completely with their set and gave those thoughts of being a teenager in the 1980s a helping hand with their playful recollections.

Go West, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

(466 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Hue And Cry, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

For anybody who was at Eric’s in Liverpool when Hue and Cry, the brothers Greg and Pat Kane, in May 2012 when the music they performed was so serene, so brimming with the bounty of many years as being one of the great bands to emerge from the late 80s that if the world had ended somehow in a hail of cosmic dust, nobody pretty much would have minded. Now to witness their set at the Philharmonic Hall would have just about having any audience member packing their bags and asking their own personal deity which way they should be heading.

Hue And Cry, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

(468 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

The Christians, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It may have been a shorter set than any of their home grown fans may have liked but there could be no doubting the honesty, the respect and love from band to audience and given back a hundred times over.  There was obvious mutual sheer enjoyment which accompanied the half dozen songs performed by The Christians as they opened up a terrific night of 80s/90s musical nostalgia at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

The Christians, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

(429 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Steeleye Span, Wintersmith. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There is no other way to write it down, a statement, that unless something the internet decides that enough is enough and crawls off to be superseded   by pure thought, should stand for all time, the combination between literature and Folk/Rock music in Steeleye Span’s Wintersmith is one of the albums of the year.

Steeleye Span, Wintersmith. Album Review. full post

(406 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Glossom, E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Somewhere in the recesses of the mind, creativity can sparkle and take hold of a person. Once there it is near impossible to ever let it go back to being a dormant thought, unspoken and unloved. Even the most uncreative, unquestioning person in the world may find the small nagging voice speak softly but with purpose asking, begging to be set free, to fulfil something other than being an unthinking cog with no shred of inspiration. When the abundance of creativity is given full flow from a set of artists or musicians, the question should be, why might you want to put it away when you can create something rather marvellous?

Glossom, E.P. Review. full post

(396 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Tonight’s The Night To Come To The Liverpool Empire Theatre.

Tonight’s The Night, the smash hit musical comedy inspired by the songs of Rod Stewart is to launch a major new tour in January 2014 starring Jade Ewen. The all-singing, all-dancing feel-good show premiered in the West End in 2003 and went on to play sold-out theatres across the U.K. The tour will visit the Liverpool Empire theatre from Monday 27th January to Saturday 1st February 2014.

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(638 words, estimated 2:33 mins reading time)

Time Passing

Striding through the woods at night,

sounds surrounding me, slithers of light.

I stop and kneel,

the cold damp earth spongy underfoot.

I look up to the beaming moon

shrouded by an eerie mist.

Night continues on its path to dawn.

 

Distant voices remind me I am lost,

shadows extending blackness.

I cry out. A primeval urge to dig and climb,

no hiding place to protect my weary bones.

 

Loneliness is devouring me, encircling my being.

Senses super tuned.

Damp air.

Cold clammy skin.

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(175 words, estimated 42 secs reading time)

Michael Schenker, Bridge The Gap. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Take the mightiest roar from the express train that hurtles past you at 100 miles an hour at your local railway station and mix it with the romance and visual sense of a tropical thunderstorm in full force.  That image is part the way to something that your jaw might just drop to as you take in the absolute power of nature and with that your some way to the effect that Michael Schenker and his latest album Bridge the Gap will leave you with.

Michael Schenker, Bridge The Gap. Album Review. full post

(399 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Ripper Street: Threads Of Silk And Gold. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, MyAnna Buring, David Wilmot, Damien Molony, Leanne Best, David Dawson, Frank Harper, Peter Sullivan, Frank McCafferty, Jassa Ahluwalia, Dale Leadon Bolger, Gillian Saker, Stephen Jones, Kirsty Oswald, Alexander Cobb, David Crowley, Scott Handy, Alfie Stewart, Bella Stewart-Wilson, Andrew Tieman, David Walsh.

The way that Ripper Street has incorporated the life of Detective Inspector Reid and his surroundings of Whitechapel, London and given the audience that watch this ever increasing popular programme a lesson in some of the more historical emergences of the time is never anything but gratifying.

Ripper Street: Threads Of Silk And Gold. Television Review. full post

(610 words, estimated 2:26 mins reading time)

A Splash Of Colour.

He sees her in the corner of his eye,

splashes of colour on a passer by.

He beams a smile, a worthy invite,

as she glides on by this giver of light.

Inhaling sweet air, she smells of roses,

fragrant as a spring day, it encloses

visions of balmy days, chasing through grass.

Emotions and feelings he must surpass.

His face crumbles as she turns a corner.

Disappointment fills his heart, a mourner

for love he could have had, but never did.

Strong emotions he knows must be kept hid.

A Splash Of Colour. full post

(182 words, estimated 44 secs reading time)